Originally Posted By: Boelle
is there a way to have it fix all errors at once? or do one have to enter the command for each bad sector?

could be nice to have an "auto repair" option in hijack.. and just leave the player until it's done.. maybe some output on the display on the progress


A simple shell script wrapper is all you need -- have it run smartctl to get the error list, and then invoke hdparm --repair-sector once for each reported bad sector, then repeat until no more exist.